Corexit 9527 MSDS - 38% is 2-butoxyethanol
the 6-14-92 version of Corexit has 2-butoxyethanol...Exxon didn't identify any products on Corexit of 8-1-89 but was using it before it had an MSDS... later ...
www.valdezlink.com/corexit.htm

4 comments:

individ
said...

2-butoxyethanol is the active ingredient in Windex; it is also the main ingredient in "white board" cleaners in grade schools. Does it follow that it should be sprayed in the ocean? Not necessarily. But to paint it as some horrible substance is not warranted.

It in itself isn't that bad. It's the combination that will bring about a disaster literally of biblical proportions.

Oil would normally wash ashore and not remain mixed in the water. But with this dispersant my fear it will stay mixed for a very very long time, maybe years or more, killing everything and making the ocean one big dead zone.